On the Wednesday from the afternoon I got a walk in brand new occupation, It was to carry my personal curage dwon, But nevertheless I happened to be compelled to produce: To have indeed there I confronted by an excellent bobtail'd lass, However, I will enjoys passed their unique by the, And i also please grabbed their particular because of the hands, An i head her toward kye. The pettycoat you to definitely she got with the Is made of one's blanket bluish, The fresh smock was because black colored because charcole, Trust in me this was correct; However, tempting conditions, often lure more youthful birds, The ones from their nest would fly, And I'll never believ't is actually initially One to she had been stuck in the kye. A beneficial council, an effective guy, I render, To you, child, I offer, Never take having a bob-tail'd lass For as long as you've an hour or so to live. You had beter take one that's best and you can high, Regardless of if she feel never ever so worst, Getting I never are thus disgraced inside my lifetime As i was by this bob-tail'd whoore.

Away from Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there away sexy young St. Petersburg, PA teen girls from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland from Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, from what is NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.13 f. 42.

Point step three, English Music

It was good maide away from my personal countre As she appeared by the a hathorne-tre As the packed with plant life, because the will be viewed, She merveld so you’re able to se the tre thus grene

The tre housemaid answere by and by: “We have a causse to growe triumphantly; This new swetest dew that ever be sene Doth slip towards me and you will kepe my personal grene.

“Yea ,” quothe the maid, “but where thou growe, Thou stande in the hande for each and every blowe, Of every man getting to be noticed; We mervaile you to thou growe very grene.”

“Even if many-one grab flowers away from me personally, & manye a great branche away from my tre, I’ve instance store, they wyll not be sene, For much more & my personal tredges growe grene.”

“But exactly how, in addition they chaunce to slice brand new downe And you will carry thie braunches into the towne? Up coming have a tendency to they never no more end up being sene To expand againe very freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe which you perform, yt ys no boote, Withoute they cut me to new roote; Second yere againe Im sene So you can bude my personal branches freshe and you may grene.”

“While, reasonable maide, canne perhaps not take action; To have yf your help youre maidhode goe, Up coming tend to yt never no further feel sene Once i that have my personal braunches is also growe grene.”

The new maide with that begane so you can blushe, And turned into their regarding hathorne bushe. She believe herdelffe very faire & clene, Their bewtie styll carry out ever before growe grene.”

With several a beneficial sighe she went their particular waye, In order to se howe she maide their own notice thus gay, So you can walke, in order to se, and to getting sene, An enthusiastic so away-encountered the brand new hathorne grene

Exactly what with she harde so it marvelous dowbte, She walked styll up coming the aboute; Suspecting nevertheless what she’d wene, Their unique maidheade lost couldn’t get noticed.

Besides all of that yt put their particular inside the feare To talke with companye anye where, To own feare to reduce the thing that shuld feel sene To grow because the was brand new hathorn grene.

But following this never I am able to right here Of effectuer mayden any where, You to definitely ever before she was in tree sene, In order to talke againe of one’s hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]

New go out of the concerns just like L. Lloyd’s track mentioned below. Text out of BL MS Cotton Vesp. A beneficial.25, via K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you will partial in the Chappell’s PMOT. The fresh new go out on the ballad could be several months prior to when L. Lloyd’s song over. A classic type accumulated as opposed to song, about 1825, is “This new Hawthorn Green”, p. cuatro in Elizabeth. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Collection of Ballads and Tunes 1975. A negative conventional veresion that i suspect was discovered of Chappell’s PMOT, was “The Hawthorn Plant”, p. fifteen in the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.